CCIE Contracts in London

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 348 429
Rank change year-on-year +21 +81 +93
Contract jobs citing CCIE 38 51 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.11% 1.23% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 42
10th Percentile £478 £365 £302
25th Percentile £500 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% +3.70% -7.95%
75th Percentile £664 £550 £658
90th Percentile £766 £620 £738
England median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £41.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.25 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +100.63% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

CCIE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,415 4,155 5,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.83% 23.58% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,301 2,858 3,781
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £769 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 106 83
10th Percentile £18.40 £14.84 £18.72
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.50 £23.63
Median hourly rate £26.41 £25.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -52.78% +27.06%
75th Percentile £50.54 £42.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £66.54 £68.38 £87.50
England median hourly rate £28.50 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.94% -22.73% +32.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing CCIE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for CCIE in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCIE in London.

Daily rate trend for CCIE in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCIE in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCIE in London.

Hourly rate trend for CCIE in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the London region over the 6 months to 4 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +12 10 £659 +2.57% 11
South London - 2 £600 - 1
East London - 1 £675 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) AWS
2 3 (7.89%) Azure
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.26%) Serverless
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (2.63%) IaaS
4 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.63%) PaaS
4 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (55.26%) BGP
1 21 (55.26%) Firewall
2 18 (47.37%) OSPF
3 14 (36.84%) Multicast
4 13 (34.21%) Network Security
5 10 (26.32%) MPLS
6 8 (21.05%) Wireless
7 7 (18.42%) DNS
7 7 (18.42%) VPN
8 6 (15.79%) Radio Access Network
8 6 (15.79%) WAN
9 5 (13.16%) Broadband
9 5 (13.16%) GPON
9 5 (13.16%) IPv6
10 4 (10.53%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (10.53%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (10.53%) Unicast
11 3 (7.89%) NX-OS
11 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
11 3 (7.89%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (23.68%) Finance
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Banking
2 7 (18.42%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (57.89%) Network Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Architect
3 7 (18.42%) Cisco Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Implementation Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Network Architect
3 7 (18.42%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Senior
5 5 (13.16%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Principal Network Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Cisco Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Cisco Network Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Network Security Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Network Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.63%) eBPF
2 1 (2.63%) gRPC
2 1 (2.63%) NETCONF
2 1 (2.63%) REST
2 1 (2.63%) RESTCONF
2 1 (2.63%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.16%) PKI
3 3 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.26%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.26%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.63%) CMDB
5 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Project Delivery
2 6 (15.79%) Low Latency
2 6 (15.79%) Migration
2 6 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (13.16%) Change Control
3 5 (13.16%) ITIL
4 4 (10.53%) Change Management
4 4 (10.53%) Configuration Management
4 4 (10.53%) Data Protection
4 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (10.53%) Network Design
5 3 (7.89%) Business Case
5 3 (7.89%) Incident Management
5 3 (7.89%) Observability
5 3 (7.89%) Process Improvement
5 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (5.26%) High Availability
6 2 (5.26%) Network Management
6 2 (5.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 2 (5.26%) Perl
2 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.63%) C
Qualifications
1 38 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (44.74%) CCNP
3 6 (15.79%) CCIE Service Provider
4 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 3 (7.89%) JNCIE
6 2 (5.26%) CCIE Security
6 2 (5.26%) CCNA
6 2 (5.26%) Degree
7 1 (2.63%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (2.63%) CISSP
7 1 (2.63%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.63%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.63%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (39.47%) Ansible
2 5 (13.16%) ZABBIX
3 3 (7.89%) Terraform
4 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.26%) Puppet
5 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (68.42%) Cisco
2 12 (31.58%) Arista
2 12 (31.58%) Fortinet
3 8 (21.05%) SolarWinds
4 5 (13.16%) Ericsson
4 5 (13.16%) Nokia
4 5 (13.16%) VMware
5 4 (10.53%) F5
5 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.89%) Juniper
7 2 (5.26%) CheckPoint
7 2 (5.26%) McAfee
7 2 (5.26%) Splunk
8 1 (2.63%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.63%) Mellanox
8 1 (2.63%) Meraki
8 1 (2.63%) NVIDIA
8 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.63%) Wind River